Texas governor signs bill allowing police to arrest migrants entering US illegally

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : Within six months of Joe Biden taking office as a Democrat in the White House in 2021, Texas state troopers began making agreements with private landowners whose properties abut the border with Mexico and arresting migrants who crossed their properties - not for alleged immigration offenses covered by federal law, but for trespassing, in an audacious workaround.
38% : Critics say that apart from racial profiling, the law could prompt the wrongful arrest of US citizens and immigrants who are in the country legally.

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